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Combing through sales data reveals plenty of intriguing nuggets of information. One of the major trends is the passenger car market, which once reigned supreme in the United States. These days, sedans and compact cars sit stale on dealership lots, while crossovers and SUVs find plenty of homes.

Amid the passenger car downturn, there’s one sliver of good news: performance cars.

The Detroit News reports sales of sports cars have actually risen, despite a lackluster performance from more pedestrian offerings. Hot hatchbacks and muscle cars saw an overall uptick in sales from Chevrolet, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler. These high-profile, sometimes “halo” vehicles, perform well with more affluent and wealthy buyers. Best of all, they’re youngsters.

For example, passenger car sales have tanked 11.4 percent during the first quarter of 2017, but sales of the Ford Focus ST and RS rose 25 percent. Overall, regular Focus sales dipped 24.6 percent while the hotter versions found plenty of driveways. Even more intriguing? The Ford Fusion Sport further boosted Ford sales, itself a sleeper sedan.

Dodge sales slipped considerably, but in the meantime, younger buyers scooped up plenty of high-performance Chargers and Challengers, specifically Hellcats, marking a four percent increase during 2016.

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The car enthusiasts are starting to realise how bleak things are about to become and scooping up the last of the real V8 powered performance cars. The liberal tree huggers and Cafe won’t be happy until they have killed off the V8 engine and probably any gas engine for that matter and have us all driving around in boring egg shaped cookie cutter electric vehicles that drive us around like the walking dead.